Lighting-aware Unified Model for Instance Segmentation
Qisai Liu, Alloy Das, Zhanhong Jiang, Joshua R. Waite, Aditya Balu, Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Soumik Sarkar
原文摘要
Foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrate impressive zero-shot generalization but frequently degrade under diverse real-world illumination, particularly for instance segmentation. In this work, we address this limitation by developing Lighting Convolutional-Attention (LCA), an adapter module that enhances segmentation robustness without fine-tuning the heavy backbone. LCA employs a dual-branch architecture to process RGB features alongside contrast maps, enabling physically motivated sensitivity to structural changes rather than illumination artifacts. We optimize LCA through a pairwise training strategy, introducing a targeted loss term that explicitly penalizes discrepancies between clean images and their corresponding illumination variants. To evaluate and support this architecture, we conduct a comprehensive empirical study across multiple existing benchmarks and present a novel Unity-based synthetic dataset specifically designed to accurately replicate complex real-world lighting conditions. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our approach successfully bridges the domain gap, delivering superior lighting-robust segmentation.
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